Travel Blogs from Gulf of Papagayo

... heat kicks in. Still determined, we tackling the hill with a smile that's starting to fade.

After walking for at least half an hour in enormous heat up the hill with no shade on the way, we meet two girls on bikes who tell us that the waterfall is 7 kilometres away!!!! We decide that we are too young to die and barge in the nearest building that looked kind of like a hotel (actually still not sure what that was) to see if we can get a taxi. There were ...

Day 52: Woke up feeling a small amount of fragileness and a big amount of tiredness! This was probably because I woke up at 6am! Stupid body clock. By 8:30 I gave up and went downstairs where me and Michaela cooked pancakes for breakfast. We got ready and went into town briefly before getting a taxi to Ocotal beach. It's bank holiday so it was fairly busy but not too bad. The wind though wonderfully cooling did however cover us painfully in sand in about 5 seconds though and ...

We headed to the Central Valley today to stay at a guesthouse called La Villa Hermosa. It is owned by the most lovely people, Wendy and Dave Holt. I mean seriously, it was such a relief to emerge from the scorpion infested (there were more that Tracy hadn't told me about) jungle where roads were simply drainage pathways that people drove on to the simple but picturesque countryside around Lake ...

At last we came to Portrero and the "Villaggio" where we will be living for 3 weeks. It was a pleasant surprise, an Italian-inspired aggregation of duplexes. We were met by Meredith, founder of the program, and settled into our adequately furnished casita.

We made up the beds and left the bulk of unpacking for the following ...

... became an all too familiar struggle. The heat reflecting off the black asphalt adds a few degrees. The few wispy trees offered little or no shade. About 10 km out of Liberia there was a bar with great shaded patio on the right side of the highway. It was closed but we took advantage of its patio shade and breeze.

After about fifteen minutes, we were joined by our favorite cycling threesome; Finn, Matt, and Andy, ...